So, strikes in Finland are conducted with an ending date and time?

In the US, they generally just go on and on until one side or the other caves in - or the courts decide that the workers must go back to their jobs. And the latter doesn't always work.

We've made some additions and improvements to Notes!

The Notes feature has been added to two action-taking pages:

• You can now add a Note directly on the Add a friend page - handy if you'd like to mark down where you met them or another name you know them by!
• On the Ban and unban users page (under Account -> Privacy) you can now add a Note, including to a group of users all banned at the same time (so that next year you won't need to ask yourself "hey, why did I ban these guys?")

Other changes:

• When you're viewing your existing Notes they're grayed out; click in a field to activate it to change the text (this page can be found from the header by using Profile -> Manage Notes)
• Changes to editing:
  • When you're going to create a new Note but one already exists, you'll get a warning that you're editing an existing Note
  • You can now delete a note from the "Edit note" pop-up in the hover menu
  • You can now delete notes for multiple selected users on the Manage notes page
  • When you change Notes on "Ban|unban users" page, they can be edited and saved with "Save Changes" button

I dag stoppa eg på brua på veg heim frå byen. Det er ikkje så ofte eg stoppar slik. Brua innbyr ikkje så ofte til det. Som regel er det rett surt å opphalde seg på ei slik bru som det. Vind og regn er vanlege komponentar. Men ikkje denne seinhausten. Og ikkje i dag. I dag var det kaldt. Eit par grader under null. Og klårt. Så i dag stoppa eg. Ved lyktestolpen midt på brua, der det er lengst ned til vatnet. Der stod eg og såg ned i vatnet. Det kan ha vore i eit minutt. Det kan også ha vore ti sekund. Eg har ikkje ei meining om tid. Den var på ein måte ikkje eksisterande der og då.

Eg stod der og såg ned i vatnet. Ned på fjorden. Men det såg ikkje ut som ein fjord. Det såg ikkje ut som vatn i det heile. Eg stod der og såg ned i universet. Verdsromet. Eit svart ingenting med nokre små prikkar av lys her og der. Kaiene på begge sider av fjorden sveva i lause lufta, og det hadde passa godt med eit romskip fortøya ved eit lagerbygg på den eine kaia. Og det hadde passa godt med totalt fråvere av lyd. Men eg stod trass alt på brua, og trafikken laga alt anna enn stille. Så eg gjekk vidare. Heim. Og verdsromet må vente til ein annan gong. Ingen veit kor lenge.

Ven.
Venskap.
Venleik.
Eg har mange vene menneske i livet mitt.

Slike vene menneske gjer hausten ekstra fin. Sjølv om veiret i seg sjølv har stått for unormalt mykje venleik denne hausten, med regn berre tre-fire-fem dagar i oktober og november hittil.

I går fylte desse vene menneska opp min bustad. Det gjer meg takksam. Og glad.
Og dei vene menneska gjer verda vakrare. Kvar dag.

Tusen takk.

Here he is:

The Winner of the Futurama Support Characters Battles 2009




Congratulations to our metal satan.


I'm off on holiday from tomorrow (that worked out nicely, eh) but there are more where this came from in one week's time. Let the speculation begin!

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-secrets_07.html

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I met someone who felt the same way, but I remember him more for being strong enough to change. From him I learned that people are more than their mistakes.


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Many years ago, an older man that I trusted had inappropriate sexual contact with me. Twelve years of therapy and a suicide attempt later, and I still live with it every day.

A big part of me will forever be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to me.

























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I am a prisoner of my own indecision.




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Host rimar på ost.
Og på kost.

Å hoste.
Eg hostar.
I går hosta eg.
Eg har hosta.

Barndomen var i stor grad fylt av host.
Vaksendomen (så langt) i mykje mindre grad. Men det førekjem.
Ungdomen er vag. Hugsar ikkje.

Hosteflage.
Hostedrops.
Hostesaft.
Hostepastill.

Tørrhoste nyttar ikkje.
Finst det noko
som heiter våthoste?

Å hoste - hostar - hosta - har hosta. Eg hostar ikkje lenger.

Og lygn har eg aldri fare med.
...

Who is your winner?

Poll #1481683 Winner
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 166

Choose your champion!

Final standings...
01. ???
02. ???
03. ???
04. ???
05. Calculon
06. Lrrr
07. Nibbler
08. Kif

Hello,

Jeg heter Erik.

I'm brand new to the Norwegian language and not so new to the Swedish language. I initially wanted to learn Norwegian, but there was much more information and books available at the library to learn Swedish. They have a few Norwegian books (most of which are in library use only, which is extremely annoying when you have a job and can't dedicate a proper study period at the library) and found that they are very similar which makes learning Norwegian very easy. A few quick questions, though.

If I learn bokmål, and speak bokmål because it's all that I have learned, will I be understood in Norway or will I get confused stares and amused grins?

Secondly, are there any online resources that helped any of you?

Thirdly, which books can you recommend? I found that the Beginner's Guide to Swedish was the biggest help to me in that language, I was wondering if the Norwegian one was as good?

Takk
Erik

I've been nudged by suds_and_soda because I am a slowpoke and don't update this thing often enough. So, five things that are awesome!:

- it's Friday! #TGIF as they say on twitter
- I finally have a temp job that is somewhat related to what I want to actually work with. Progress!
- my friends and I have tickets to the New Moon premiere. There will be much girly drinks and giggling.
- Gossip girl and Project Runway viewing tonight with girlfriends. Wine and dressing up!
- I get to wear my sparkly new dress that is a little too shiny/dressy to wear for no reason, but I don't care because I like dressing up :)

Hey, I'm a Norwegian girl currently working my way through my first semester of English grammar at University level. This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm wondering if someone here could help me unravel what it is I'm asked to do in a task for my obligatory paper :x I'm not asking for help with the task itself, I'm asking for help understanding the task xD

The task goes like this;

"She has tried to show that what you would have to assume in order to acquit my client is simply beyond our normal understanding of what is reasonable."

- Analyze the underlined that-clause in terms of its functional clause elements.

- The underlined clause is itself the object of another clause which in turn functions as the object of the complete sentence. Demonstrate the hierarchical clause structure of the sentence it occurs in. (Not a full syntactic analysis)

I've analysed the that-clause (identified its subject, verb, direct object, etc.), but the second part of the task has me stumped. I can see that the underlined clause is the object of another clause (it's the object of the preceding clause). But I'm not seeing how that other clause can be the object of the complete sentence @_@; What am I missing?

Help would be appreciated, but so would new friends :) As mentioned, I'm Norwegian so I could help out people who're learning Norwegian. I've studied Japanese at University level for three years, so it would also be interesting to get in touch with someone who'd like to practice that.

Det er ikkje langt frå åleine til einsam.

Du veit det alt for godt der du sit og prøvar å finne på noko å gjere. Lenge låg du og halvsov på sofaen. Lytta til hjarteslaga som bølga fram og tilbake på det indre øyra. Kjende korleis leppene vart tørrare for kvar innpust, og korleis noko langt nede i lungene samla krefter til ein hoste som viste seg å vere ganske nyttelaus når han endeleg gjorde sin entre. Du prøvde å finne ei god stilling - ei sovestilling. Det er aldri lett å finne ei slik stilling i ein hjørnesofa med sving i staden for hjørne, tenkte du. Så prøvde du litt til likevel.

Ute er det fint. Skikkeleg, nydeleg haustveir. Typisk, tenkjer du, og fantaserer om å gå vidden saman med nokon. Det ser fint ut. Litt forblåst hadde det nok vore, men de kunne funne ein stad med ly for vinden, leite fram stormkjøkenet og koke dykk ei herleg tomatsuppe. Den skulle de drikke med omhu, og den skulle smake fatastisk. Sidan skulle de sitje ei lita stund og ikkje prate om noko. Berre varme kvarandre. Nyte utsikten.

Men røynda hentar deg snart inn att. Du har ikkje vore på vidden. Det skal du heller ikkje. Ikkje på lenge, i alle fall. Du har sett søppel-TV. Du har drukke te, du har hatt kramper under føtene, du har venta på telefonar (som ingen veit at dei skal ta fordi du ikkje har bedt nokon om det) og du har fantasert. Om vidden, om livet og om kjærleiken. Kven har sagt at feberfantasiar nødvendigvis er dårlege?

Det ikkje langt frå åleine til einsam. Men det er ikkje så frykteleg kort heller.
Dessutan vert du snart frisk.

And today isn't the end!

Friday will see us crown the king/queen of the Futurama Support Characters Battles! Today, we rank the 4 losing semi finalists and reveal if this has worked properly so far!

Choose your favourite loser! (No wild card entries for the victor this time. These guys have had their chances and lost...)

Poll #1480424 Runners Up
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 144

5th, 6th, 7th and 8th places!

Is your favourite Futurama Support Character still in with a chance of winning this Friday?

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Have a prompt in mind, or you'd like to fulfill one. All can be done anonymously if you so wish!

Thanks to cork118 for letting me post this.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-secrets.html

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.




















See more secrets. Follow PostSecret on Twitter.


















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I'm studying Hindi, so that when I meet your parents, I can tell them I love you.















The new book is available from bookstores and online.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2007/02/wwwhopelinecom.html

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Subject: thank you

Frank,

This past Friday night I found myself in a black hole of depression and I didn't know how I was going to make it through the night. Not knowing where to turn and feeling like I couldn't stop. I remembered seeing the Hopeline phone number in the front of your book. I talked with someone there for 2 and a half hours and I truly feel that they saved my life.

Thank you for the book, thank Hopeline for being there, and thank the people that send in their postcards so that others know they are not alone with their secrets.


-Casie (with permission)





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(posted with permission)

Good evening Frank,

I sent you a post card in 2006. I made it on a picture. I liked it a lot. And I guess, so did you, because you posted it that fallowing Sunday. I was excited and happy, until I noticed that YOU HAD CUT OFF HALF OF MY SECRET. Then my excitement and happiness turned into violation and anger... I was so pissed! I didn't know why you had done that! I felt like you had taken my secret, and changed it... and then shown the whole world. I realize now, that you had CUT OFF MY SECRET because it wasn't the 'correct size' of a post card. Which STILL pisses me off, because I have seen a lot of post cards that you have posted, that isn't the "shape" of a fucking post card. But you don't change their wording, or edit them... (or maybe you do.)

Frankly, Frank... I have never, and probably will never sent you another post card again. Because it doesn't feel safe. Because what if you're going to change and alter that one, too? Now I doubt the post cards I see.... if you altered and edited mine, how would I know that you didn't just do the same thing, to some other poor girl, pouring her heart out on a dark night?

Final Kicker: That post card i sent was god themed. It said "Maybe I'll start believeing in G-d..." (and THE PART YOU FUCKING CUT OFF WOULD OF SAID "...Now that I am slowly loosing everything, there seems no better time") I bought your new book... Maybe because I wanted another PS book, or maybe because I was still holding out that I might see my old secret, properly displayed in whole... alas, I was left disappointed that my secret was no where to be found. Anywhere.

So... why am I writing you, 3 years later about a post card you don't remember? I'm not sure. I've started and deleted this same email to you so many times, over the last 3 years. I feel stupid for being this upset over something so silly. That's why I've deleted the past emails...Part of me feels like you deserve to know that you have hurt the feelings of one of your (long time) viewers. I still like Post Secret, I still support you, and I still tell others about this project, but you did take some fire out of my passion. And you did hurt my feelings, and I don't feel safe sharing my secrets with you any more.

But this time Frank, I might just hit the send button...


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On this week's post secret there is a picture of a girl with nipple peircings. The strange thing is, that girl looks just like me.. I have straight red hair that color and I am pale and thin just the same. I could send you a picture of myself if you do not understand why I am so upset. Please take it off!!


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